The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 21, 1940, Page 8

B - Hearings Coming On Fishe!igs A radiogram received today by The Empire from Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond says the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries has set for hearing and tion on March 12, the fol- additional Alaska Fishereis considel 5476—To create an Alaska Commission R. 6690—To limit net fishing Nelscn Lagoon to residents of H R 7 ~To forbid forfeiture joats and gear for alleged vio- f the law unless and until ers are convicted of criminal 8172 — To exempt trollers weekly closed se s the Congressional in- committee in Alaska last but ny other witnesses re to appear before the com- tee on March 12 will be heard, gram states, - & the rad Teday's News Toaay pire. FOOD SPECIALS! 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Program Last Evening A short business meeting was held | last night at the American Legion Dugout by members of the Legion | Auxiliary at which time Mrs. Wal- {ter Hellan spoke on ‘‘Americanism (and National Defense.” Later bridge and pinochle were played with honors gonig to Mrs.i Harriet Knowles and Mrs. Oscar Olsen, highs, and Mrs. George Gul- lufsen and Mrs. Ethel Anderson, lows. Awarded by Mrs. John McCor- mick, Mrs. Harriet Knowles was winner of a national defense plate, and Mrs. Ethel Anderson was pre- sented with a basket Refreshments were served by Mrs. | | | | Walter Hellan, Mrs. Lucille Stone-! house, Mrs. Paul Hudon and Mrs. ' Hcemer N ling The Auxiliary today sponsored H. L. Faulkner, Juneau attorney, as speaker for the George Washing- ton program held at the Juneau Public Schools i - M . e Z St AMERICANS 6O 10 THIS PLACE 21.—Americans de- to see President Roosevelt, off ¢n a ten-dav fishing trip, which he remarked that it mght be fair to assume, as <0 often happens, would combine business with a vacation, is shown as he waved farewell from aboard the destroyer Lang as he left Pensacoia, Fla. At his le t is Commander Felix Johnson of he Lang. pend on one Roman thes Turks Seize German-Owned Krupp Shipyar(ls movies from Hollywcod The Quirinetta the heart of 7 Rome, is the only theatre showing American films in their original form. French and British produc- tions also are shown These f un films then are “dubbed"—with Italian voices sub- stituted—and distributed to the oth- er theatres in Rome Few American films have come to the Quirtnetta in recent months. The new agrcement recently nego- tiated by Universal Pictures with the Italian film monopoly for 18 ROME, Feb American pictures assures at least that many new productions for showing in Rome the coming SHIP QUITS; 15 AGROUND PAPEETEE Tahiti. Feb. 21. — After successfully sailing the dan- gerous waters of the Tuomotu Is- lands for 40 years, the schooner Vaite at last lies high on a reef, damaged beyond repair. She has long been the only con- tact between civilization and hun- dreds of persons living on isolat- ed islands. The Tuomotus, German technicians who had been outfitting Turkish submarines. This picture shows the launching of designated on Turkey's second submarine from the shipyards in March, 19 many maps as the Dangerous 23 4 Archipelago, consist of a 1,000- o T Ak z AR AT v mile-long barrier of atolls and | Nassau Street, which traverses coral reefs swept by erratic cur- ‘Gout Cure Produces NeW Plant "’h“ financial section of downtown | rents, Polynesians consider the | | New York, was once known as! area ruled by evil spirits. | “Pie Woman's Alley. — e - The walls of ancient Alexan- - dria in Egypt were six miles in | eircuit. Empire Want Ads Bring Results. —— e Soviet Russia has a Black Sea Tolrs Muciedt Ve fient N £ et S e - ik 2 b farcia Wright, 4, admires a tetra marigold plant, creat hemical and exhibited by David Burpee, of Philadelphia. o 150 pores u!tl}rut& at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria. The chemical used was col- hicine, a gout remedy. It doubled the plant’s chromosome content, pro- ducing a two-foot plant with large, orange flowers. > There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising v foreign friends much less frequently since the war ! Italian officers have been in- Av ID FOREI NER structed even to avoid the cafes of the Via Vittorio Vencto, the capital's Main Street, where they | might encounter foreigners. ROME, Feb. 21. — TItalian Arm\: R Saao i o and Navy officers have been cau- “The Peep-O'-Day-Boys” wer LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Feb. 21. — Alyioneq to avoid foreigners as much | Irish insur:cm.s. al’mul 1784, v\l):‘: fledgling attorney just out of 1aw . pocgiple presumably as a safe- |visited the houses of their antago- school had no rebuttal when Depu- ' g;;arq against spies. nists, in seareh of arms, at dawn ty County Clerk Harry Russell told | bl £ g 5 him some papers he wanted to| Unlike i Soviet Russia, where TR R S file weren't drawn property. |contact between officials and for- “God Save the King,” the Eng- “They've been drawn that wny‘elKncl'S has been discouraged for|lish national anthem, was first by others,” contended the youngjse\v’eral vears, Italian officials have | publicly sung in 1745 barrister. {had many friends in Rome’s foreign | “Not for the past fifty years,”|colony. Russell retorted. T And the deputy clerk should | know. He's been handling those documents more than fifty years. NUDITYIS NO MORE PALO ALTO, Cal., Feb. 21.—For vears, the men of Stanford Uni- versity have enjoyed the privilege of swimming without suits, because their pool was enclosed by buildings and high walls. Now that the Hoover Library building is rising in the form of a 10-story tower, they're reluctantly figuring on buying trunks. | Enterprising students—all male so | far as is known—discovered that the | upper floors of the tower command a birds-eye view of the pool and! swimmers. ISONJOB | LONG TIME - - But they are seeing their Today's News ‘Today—Emplre. oo RONBILLPAD | | BLENDED WHISKEY Calvert “Reserve”: 90 Proof —65% Grain Neutral i Spirits. Copyright 1940, Calvert Distillers Corporation, New York City. | e VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. 21— | A Vancouver man bought an iron| with coppers—1,800 of them. 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